Netflix's epic new period Western show is the platform's first genuine effort to compete with Taylor Sheridan's multiple successful Western series.

The series, now streaming on Netflix, depicts the brutality with which the Mormons sought to create a new world for their beliefs, the pride with which the native people held onto their ancestral lands, and the tragedy of the people just seeking to make a new home in the chaos. But is any of it true?

In Netflix’s new limited series, “American Primeval,” written by “The Revenant” scribe Mark. L. Smith, audiences are thrust into the viciousness of the American West, specifically the Utah Territory in 1857.

Lights" creator Peter Berg makes the wild west look like hell on Earth in "American Primeval." There's some good between all the blood.

Netflix's upcoming Western series American Primeval is set to drop soon, so ahead of its release, we take a look at the star-studded cast.

Peter Berg directs an epic six-part drama about the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, in which more than 100 settlers were murdered by militant Mormons.

Do any of the characters in American Primeval survive? Here’s everything you need to know about how Netflix’s American Primeval ends… Finding it impossible to get through Netflix’s American Primeval without knowing what happens to our heroes?

However, it saps anything resembling wistfulness from its Hollywood Western roots, complicating its chances of cornering the post-Yellowstone market (alongside the latter's many spin-offs). What's left is the husk of a beloved genre,